Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

The trio were frequently grouped together as godheads of the Soviet political system. In the opening weeks of the invasion, a handful of Soviet flags flown ... the Soviet Union," he said.

It was to be called the Union of Soviet Socialist ... still known across the post-Soviet region as the Great Patriotic War. Red Army soldiers hoisted the Soviet flag from a balcony of the Hotel ...

Confidently rolling toward Ukrainian lines in western Russia’s Kursk Oblast in up-armored vehicles brazenly flying the flag of the defunct Soviet Union, an assault group from the Russian 155th ...

The Russian and the Polish flags were flying at the Katyn memorial, erected in memory of the 25,000 Poles, mostly army officers deemed anti-communist, massacred by the Soviet Union's political ...